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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/30/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-241149
I think they are just "pretend surface liberals"
At heart, this family only works for itself, no one else.
Months ago, an ordinary working family,not very educated, but not dumb, told me--
"They just want to be rich or richer. But they are not the richest in the world. Bill Gates is. I don't know how much richer they want to be."
I would also add they are power freaks, but spiraling downwards badly.
What do you think?
7-31-2017

Reince Priebus dismissed by Trump by tweet and at airport in rain
look at major news outlets.
MSNCB, The Rachel Maddow show, Trump WH has said he will sign sanctions bill, he has to.
He cannot take Russia's side now and not add fuel to flame of already blazing Russian collusion case.
excellent Richard Engel reports from Moscow, Russia (not the "Moscow" of Burma, Insein Prison)
Intv of Kaspersky Labs founder Eugene Kaspersky and others.
DON'T use Kaspersky products.
kmk
7-29-2017

6. The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
I recall the excitement when this book was published in the late 1970's - and then discovered (not always the case) that the book merited it. Flanagan, an American history professor of Irish descent, pulled off a substantial coup in that he brought a historian's training to bear upon a romantic moment, the period when the French landed in the west of Ireland in 1798 and all Ireland thought liberation was at hand. His research never lies around the novel in pools, it stains the entire fabric, so that when his character's point of view is emerging from a dispossessed farmer's clay hovel or a small town merchant's table in the local hotel, we smell them - their clothes, their breath and (this is Ireland after all) their politics.

At Hearing, McCabe shrugged and said, in response to Q is FBI rank and file disliked Comey, that in fact opposite was true, and DJT must have noted that.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/21/news/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-financial-disclosure/index.html ">http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/21/news/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-financial-disclosure/index.html
This saga is by no means played out yet.
There is always a back and forth zig zag going on--
Mueller/media finds out more, Trump Circus admits a bit, Hearings,
Mueller/media finds out more.
But if you notice, by his own admission months ago, WH is under seige.
New T. lawyer John Dowd talked to MCNBC producer about statute of limitations, so has T committed financial crimes, Rachel Maddow asked on Friday.
Trump camp is increasingly tying itself in knots.
If I were Kushner, I might turn state's evidence at this point and throw old father in law under the bus, but he would risk divorce fr Buvanka, but w/o the father, what wld the daughter be?
Maybe some of millions will be left.
Looks very very bad if you ask me, and T is starting to look haggard, as well he might.
7-24-2017

meanwhile Sean Spicer has been fired, T has fired lawyer Kasowitz, replaced with John Dowd, has found pliant person to replace ethics tsar who resigned--
DJT in panic mode according to Maddow, and I agree.
7-24-2017

Friday, July 21, 2017

DJT gives mostly garbled intv to NYTs, which he used to call "failing NYTs)
Attacks, Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller.Andrew MacCabe and wife.
Makes odd statements which make no sense, such as "Napoleon's extra curricular activities"
"Macron just loves holding my hand"
--Late night comedians have a good time.
Next week, Kushner in closed session at Senate Judiciary Com, on Monday.
Manafort, Don Jr in closed session on Wed.
Whew, they must think, thank God it will be closed hearings.
T. lawyer Kasowitz phased out.
You might have to read all of NYTs, Wapo, LA Times, The Guardian, listen to all of Rachel Maddow and MSNBC
and read all of Politico too.
http://www.politico.com/
I went "on the freedom trail" for the day yesterday, and so now you will just have to follow my Twitter account.
Currently, trying to keep up with "my other work."
As for Burma, I have shifted focus already, as it was going nowhere.
kmkaung
7-21-2017
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